The importance of financial literacy has gained attention worldwide in the last few years. The National Financial Educators Council (2013) defines financial literacy “as possessing the skills and knowledge on financial matters to confidently take effective action that best fulfills an individual’s personal, family and global community goals.” Financial literacy is an essential 21st century global skill for everyone to have. This is a practical article that investigates the importance of financial literacy education in early childhood classrooms, with vignettes from various early childhood classrooms where teachers are teaching financial literacy concepts. The present paper will also bring to light the importance of being purposive and intentional in teaching financial literacy concepts in early childhood classrooms. The authors bring to light the importance of training the teachers to teach these concepts. They argue that when teachers are confident about the content, they not only feel good about teaching it, but they are also able to provide depth in their teaching as well. In addition, the authors also provide guidelines grounded in research on how to successfully be intentional and purposive in teaching financial literacy concepts in early childhood classrooms. Finally, this article presents a compilation of appropriate resources and strategies teachers can use to teach this important concept in their classroom and partner with the parents to continue teaching these concepts at home as well.

过去几年，金融知识的重要性引起了全世界的关注。国家金融教育者委员会（2013）将金融素养定义为“拥有有关金融事务的技能和知识，能够自信地采取有效行动，最好地实现个人、家庭和全球社区的目标。”金融知识是 21 世纪每个人都必须具备的一项重要全球技能。这是一篇实用的文章，探讨了幼儿课堂中金融素养教育的重要性，其中包含来自教师教授金融素养概念的各种幼儿课堂的小插曲。本文还将揭示在幼儿课堂上有目的和有意识地教授金融知识概念的重要性。作者揭示了培训教师教授这些概念的重要性。他们认为，当教师对内容充满信心时，他们不仅对教学感觉良好，而且还能够提供教学的深度。此外，作者还提供了基于研究的指导方针，指导如何在幼儿课堂上成功地有目的和有目的地教授金融知识概念。最后，本文介绍了教师可以用来在课堂上教授这一重要概念的适当资源和策略的汇编，并与家长合作继续在家中教授这些概念。